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[md5sum] does not accept

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From: Rimas Kudelis <rq <at> rq.lt>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 7155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:37:01 +0300

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
wrote:
> On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a little problem with md5sum.
>> 
>> A FreeBSD box generates an md5 sum of a file, which I'm later trying to
>> check on a Linux box. The problem is that what FreeBSD's md5 outputs is
>> slightly different from what Linux's md5sum expects, which makes md5sum
>> complain. The difference is really trivial: md5 outputs one space
>> between the sum and the file name, and md5sum outputs/expects two:
> 
> md5 seems to output a different format here.
> 
> $ head -n1 /etc/motd
> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 26 05:45:12 UTC 2010
> $ md5sum --version | head -n1
> md5sum (GNU coreutils) 8.3
> $ md5 file | tee t.md5
> MD5 (file) = b85d6fb9ef4260dcf1ce0a1b0bff80d3
> $ md5sum -c t.md5
> file: OK
> 
> Could you verify what md5 utility you're using exactly.


Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I wasn't the person producing the
checksum, so I had to ask too. The command used to produce the checksum is:
$ md5 -r <filename>

FreeBSD release version is the same as yours. I've just tested the same
command with FreeBSD 6.2, and it only outputs one space too.

Rimas

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